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[Bad Trip Subthread] Have You Ever Had a Bad Trip?

Have you ever had a bad trip?

  • Yes I have.

    Votes: 346 49.4%

  • No I have never.

    Votes: 150 21.4%

  • No but I have had [b]difficult[/b] trips.

    Votes: 195 27.9%

  • I never have and am confident I never will.

    Votes: 6 0.9%

  • Other / Not sure (post alternative answer!)

    Votes: 3 0.4%
  • Total voters
    700
I had one bad trip. It was on 1.75g of small blue mushrooms. Everyone who ate them had a bad trip. It started out fine, watching Upright Citizen's Brigade in the commons room at the dorm. The RAs and RHD were lurking a bit much, though. Some security personal and police officers showed up. This wasn't unusual, and I don't think it had anything to do with us, but at this point we were all tripping pretty hard, and I made a safety call and left. Back in my room I lay down in bed and slowly felt an intense terror creep over me. I started to shake, and eventually called my friends to catch back up with them. They had found someone to drive around and smoke a couple bowls, so I met them outside. I remember going to a parking lot and ending up hanging out of the door by my seatbelt, vomiting. I vomited about 5 or 6 times that night in total, until my stomach was empty and it was just green bile coming out. Sheer terror and uncontrolable shaking and vomiting all night. The experience put me off mushrooms entirely and onto acid for a couple months.
 
My only bad trip was on 20mg of 2c-e. It wasn't really horrifying and disastrous, I just felt stuck mentally. I couldn't understand my own mental dialogue and couldn't pronounce words in my head. I had about 20 minutes of emotional breakdown, followed by a complete lack of release. Yeah that sucked ass.
 
thought i was dying friday, 750mg of dxm, 1 buspirone (anti anxiety med), 1 nice big swig of wine. all within like 30 minutes.

i couldn't breathe, thought my heart was about to fail (INSANE pulse), and apparently blabbed about my brain being fucked and won't go back to normal after this. p terrible trip i'd say

last time i ate mushrooms i wasn't tripping much, but couldn't escape all the negative thoughts i have on a day to day basis. thoughts like ' i don't enjoy life at all.... why do i continue? and what's the point if i hate everything ' sounds emo i know but i can't stop those thoughts from happening from time to time. especially had no control over it while i was tripping on mushies :\
 
I've had plenty of bad trips. Generally, they have usually benefited me more than the good trips, in the long run. I've also had some trips that I couldn't tell if they were "good" or "bad", they just were.
 
the one time i did 5.5g's of shrooms with some buddies one summer night, we ended up finding a friends stolen van and eventually found out that his best friend had robbed him, terrible night.. other than this i have had a few DXM trips that have turned pretty sour, (dosing the next morning after a 3rd plateau trip and smoking shit loads of weed an hour later) nothing emotionally robbing, just very difficult depersonalization and dissociation and alot of leg twitching.
 
My most recent trip.. however this wasnt just directly related to the mental side of things. I made a post about it in PD.

(long story short)

I had 2 tabs of an unknown psychedelic, which caused severe pain to the left side of my brain about 2-3hours in leading down to my shoulder blade, left me unable to construct sentences, basic math, slurred speech, blurred vision, un-coordinated balance. Pain continued for the next 20+hours gradually becoming more tolerable.. went to the emergency department ASAP and was checked by 4 docs.. who came to the conclusion that it was a form of a complex migraine.

That was the only trip where i genuinely felt i was going to die, that i had caused some sort of brain damage to myself.. it's made me vary weary of ingesting anything other then LSD.

My other bad trips have more or less just been 'difficult' mainly involving personal issues, paranoia and anxiety.. but i was still able to acknowledge it was just the trip. The most fun i had was running around in the woods thinking the leaves i was stepping on were piranhas and sharks.. difficult, not bad.. but im sure i scared the hell out of my friends lol :)
 
phatass said:
I thought i was in "the truman show" that there were cameras recording and the whole world revolved around me... i turned against all my friends and called them traitors for being in on this big conspiracy against me... that was on LSD and 2C-B... that sucked
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I've had the same thing many times. But only the cameras were sent from the future. First time it was on DXM+acid. The cameras were all over. It's quite nasty to notice that all your secrets have been revealed and the whole world is laughing at you.


I had my first proper bad trip recently from 4-pro-dipt, oxiracetam and weed. The setting got fucked up and I don't remember almost anything after vomiting violently. I was panicing all the time. First I wen't crazy because I was imagining that everything was on fire. No words that "I'm just tripping" helped at all. I couldn't remember taking any drug and didn't really understand what people were saying. I realized later that lights looked like fire. I was naked all the time because I thought that my clothes were on fire. I was all the time afraid of electric shocks and explosions but I didn't manage to cut off the electricity. I died many times. At some point I was running outside my apartment in the hallway shouting like crazy. I became a raging loonatic. Totally out of control. Luckily nobody phoned the cops. Most of the time I was standing naked in front of my window shouting wierd stuff. Then the Cthulhu came and started eating the whole world. It looked completly realistic. The whole world was being sucked away and the despair was unimaginable.

I also got wierd convulsions and acted like Linda Blair from The Exorcist. Wierd magical looking gestures and unhuman shape shifting. Sometimes I turned into some raging beast and sometimes I snapped out of it. I'm glad I didn't hurt anyone or didn't manage to completly destroy my whole apartment.

Funny that I had read Batman - The killing Joke just before tripping. Alan Moore's comic book about Joker. It is basically about how one bad day can ruin your life. And I remember a song from it which was going on in my head while tripping:

When the world is full of care and every headline screams despair, when all is rape, starvation, war and life is vile...
Then there's a ceirtain thing I do which I shall pass along to you, that's always guaranteed to make me smile...
I go loo-oo-oony as a light bulb battered bug, simply loo-oo-oony, sometimes foam and chew the rug...
Mister, life is swell in a padded cell, it'll chase those blues away...
You can trade your gloom for a rubber room, and injections twice a day!
Just go loo-oo-oony, like an acid casuality, or a moo-oo-nie, or a preacher on TV. When the human race wears an anxious face, when the bomb hangs overhead, when your kid turns blue, it won't worry you, you can smile and nod instead!
When you're loo-oo-oony, then you just don't give a fig...
Man's so pu-uu-uny and the universe so big...
If you hurt inside, get certified, and if life should treat you bad...
Don't get ee-ee-even, Get mad!

Now I know that the worst thing that could happen is to become crazy. To believe in all your delusions and to have no control. At least I accepted death and know what true horror is. I was so happy to be alive when I woke up. And the world was still there.

I haven't ever before experienced anything nearly as bad even though I've tripped a lot with huge doses and stupid combinations. Next time I'll just have to gladly accept death. I know now it doesn't feel bad and not accepting it is the root of nightmares.
 
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Weissewolf- sobriety can be a trip in itsslef if you can learn to live in the moment and appreciate the now.

Welcome to Bluelight! If you like tripping you'll love Psychedelic Drugs <3
 
Thanks for the concern Karma but I was trying to be cynical :)
Really Ive been clean for the last 4 months as apart of my cleansing process and enjoy every day of it.

Ive been here before a few years back but forgot my old user name so I had to make another one.
 
have any other psychonauts never had a bad trip

So I've done acid 11 times and shrooms 8 times and never once had a bad trip. I've been tripping with friends who had a bad trip, I've had a trip start to go bad but I talked myself out of it, I've even been lost in the middle of the fucking ghetto in downtown LA while tripping on 3 hits of high quality acid. But Still I wouldn't call any of those experiences a bad trip.


my mind just seems to be perfect for taking psychedelics, Is anyone else like this?
 
I could say I m the same, I do consider myself to have had "Bad trips" but durring the expiriense it was never that I freaked out and had a bad time, more so that I wasn't where I wanted to be. I still have yet to freak out, but its also a mater of mind over matter. For the most part, I can always keep in mind that I am on a substance and no matter what goes through my mind its all related to the drug. Whit this, I can pull myself out of any negatie trainof thought and return to enjoying my trip. What I consider a bad trip is when my mind leads twords negative thoughs on a somewhat common basis. So its probably not that you havent had a "bad trip," more so tht what you define s a bad trip may vary from someone else.
 
I've never had a trip that was uniformly bad from beginning to end, but i've certainly had some stressful or otherwise unpleasant things (both internal and external) happen while tripping.

Also keep in mind that while 19 trips on 2 substances may seem like a lot, if you plan on doing psychedelics for years to come, that may only be a drop in the bucket, so its probably ill advised to think you're immune to "bad trips"
 
burn2shine said:
my mind just seems to be perfect for taking psychedelics, Is anyone else like this?
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Hehe, be careful.. i've found with psychedelics the further you do explore and the more you do understand.. the higher the chance of something changing unexpectedly.

I've done acid roughly 30 times on separate occasions since i started, i believe my mind has reached a level of understanding where once i get past the initial 1-2 hour transition period into the altered state of mind.. i can craft my trip into whatever i like and however i please.

That said.. although i completely understand where my mind is at while within this level of altered mind-state it seems imagination and creativity can often surprise you.

Now i don't think I've ever really had a BAD trip, i've had a few difficult ones, and a few intense trips.. i once put myself in a dark room for 15hours on 2 1/2 hits on acid without any music or TV and explored the deepest parts of my mind, needless to say it wasn't a pleasant experience.. i didn't expect it to be, but i was curious, i came out of it feeling amazing but i wouldn't repeat the experience again, at least not at this point in my life.

The closest thing i have come to a bad trip.. was quite recent actually, no less then a 3-4 months ago.. i was in this state of mind which i like to call 'clear headed' no fears, no worry's.. pure content and understanding of myself and my surroundings.. but what i didn't expect was how intensely my imagination would merge with my perception of reality.. this trip was unique to me.. because i've never been able to replicate it.. but i literally started to see the most vivid visuals of sharks and piranhas on the ground.. and not only that i started to feel actual pain from stepping on there teeth.. i never for a second believed it to be REAL.. but none the less it amazed me and scared the shit out of my friends.. there fear of me looking like i've 'lost my mind' actually sent me into a spiral of concern, worry and paranoia.

Never assume you have it all figured out and that your immune.. because that's when something will surprise you, and its at that point you need to be prepared to handle it.

That said i do understand where your coming from, i do think some people are capable of been more mentally adjusted to the effects of psychedelics, whereas other's lack the will to comprehend what's happening, some just snap.

I met a guy one time that i was chatting too throughout most of the night, he was only on 1 tab.. and these tabs were mild at most, i was on the same dose. He seemed very calm and relaxed right through the peak of the trip and onwards.. it wasn't untill daybreak.. roughly 10hours into the trip that he couldnt find his car keys and he totally snapped. He was screaming out for his mum, yelling out he wanted stuff, screaming for about 30mins and laughing at the same time.. rolling around on the floor, crying.. he was going through all kinds of emotions, it almost seemed like a childhood memory triggered something in him.

Anyway, it was from that situation alone that i developed much respect for psychedelics and NEVER to under-estimate them.. no matter how well you think you understand them. I had been through much more intense situations and on higher dose's then this guy.. and all it took was a mild tab and an un-desirable situation to set him off.
 
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Personally, I think that bad trips are a relic of the pre-psych myth. That is to say, bad trips are something people who have never partaken in the psychedelic experience bring as baggage for their first trip. I think it's a media thing. I think it's a manifestation of the fear intrepid psychedelic explorers may initially experience.

That being said, the bad trip I think is something that exists early on in forays into our chemical minds. For me and everyone I know, it doesn't take long to realize these drugs and our brains are quite malleable and a bad trip is only a bad vibe that gets shaken like your ass when dancing and having a ball.

Actually, I think I need to go back to bed.
 
^ Experience suggests that your opinions are very wide of the mark.

I have been very fortunate and so far, in the more than 35 years since I first tripped, I have not had a truly bad experienec with psych's.

I have, however, witnessed others having them and, furthermore, am always surprised by the number of my contemporaries, who I have come to know in later life, who had a bad/difficult trip in their 30's, after 15-20 years with no problem, leading them to steer clear of psych's ever since.
 
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